Communication
If you are interested in learning more about this content area, but don’t know where to begin or would like a suggestion, take a look at these items recommended by our staff:
Curriculum-Based Speech Therapy Activities: Pre-K/Kindergarten English and Spanish Edition (Volume 1)
This book provides lessons and materials to target language enrichment and academic concepts to effectively address communication disorders.
Curriculum-Based Speech Therapy Activities: Pre-K/Kindergarten English and Spanish Edition (Volume 2)
This book provides lessons and materials to target language enrichment and academic concepts to effectively address communication disorders.
Increasing Oral and Literate Language Skills of Children in Poverty
Learn practical strategies for building oral and literate language and executive functioning skills in children from a low socioeconomic status with this DVD course. Run time is 4 hours. This session will discuss the effects of poverty on low-socioeconomic-status (SES) children and investigate whether academic underachievement is caused by language impairment, environmental factors, or a combination of both. In order to differentiate language impairment from language difference based on environmental factors, participants will learn how to get away from knowledge-based testing and conduct dynamic assessment of information processing skills. We will address the issue of building oral and literate vocabulary skills in low-SES children and discuss how to build executive functioning skills as well. Increasing academic achievement and helping students in poverty meet new Common Core State Standards in language will be emphasized.
Story Champs/Narrative Language Measure (NLM)
Story Champs is a multi-tiered language curriculum that targets story structure and complex language. Large group, small group, and individual interventions with 2 levels of language complexity are included. Use the NLM along with Story Champs to measure narrative language from PreK-3rd grade. The NLM can be used for progress monitoring, research and screening, and/or intervention planning.